On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:52:18AM -0700, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: > > Hmm, why? An nfs client will do just what you want in terms of assigning a > > single address for the connection. > > In my experience, Linux NFS is slow, especially for writes. In my uses, speed isn't critical. So I haven't focused on it. Linux NFS may be faster now than in your experience, since the kernel has seen a slew of NFS patches in the last few versions. But I haven't seen benchmarks to show whether they improve speed, or just reliability. > > The Gluster client, by contrast, > > downloads the specification of the storage cluster on initially establishing > > the connection, and works from that. > > Does that configuration use host names, or IP addresses? (Yes, what I > am considering is a kludge...) Generally hostnames, which you can set in local /etc/hosts files and which can be different on the servers and the clients. But I believe the Gluster client, if addressing two hosts, has some communication with each of them. When reading or writing a file to one, it still touches the other. So having two hostnames in /etc/hosts pointing at a single IP, for instance, quite likely would screw things up. (Someone correct me if I'm wrong, please.) Whit
